The Perfect White House

I am now more thoroughly convinced than ever that John McCain is not the man we should have in charge of our country.

Let's look back over his long bid for the Oval Office. To do so, we should probably begin way back with his tour of duty in Vietnam. The thing is, McCain is a hero. As a military officer, he served pretty flipping commendably... albeit in one of the most wrong wars in history (and there are no right wars), and his service to our country is a great debt that, it would seem, could never be repaid.

He has, however, in the process of extending his grip to that cushy Pennsylvania Avenue address, surrendered all the principles that should have made him a great man... and did, for quite some time.

This week, I learned that the smear tactics he is using to derail the Obama campaign are of the same tint as the kind that cost him the Republican Party nomination in 2000-- basically, downplay yourself and mark your candidate like a dog marks a dead tree. This kind of despicable maneuvering (yes, I know we're dealing with the world of politics) has been used by both sides in this particular war, but (a) that doesn't make it right; and (b), it has been used by McCain exponentially more than it has been used by Obama, even though McCain recently tried to tell his supporters that they needed to be far less hostile toward those on the left.

I have said previously that the chief disqualifying factor for his campaign is that lipstick-smeared sow with the hockey family: Mrs. Sarah Palin, governor of the Little State Where Ethics Weren't There (for her gubernatorial stay, anyway). Most of the ruthless epithets, baseless doubts, and vicious rumors used to derail the Obama campaign came from her poorly painted mouth. And since Alaska just said publicly that she had, in fact, abused her power, do we really want to give her more power to abuse? Even if she never makes it to the actual Presidency itself, the Vice President of the United States inarguably has more powers than the Governor of Alaska-- most importantly of all, the potential tiebreaking vote in Congress. If she has this power, America will go from a highly disrespected, debt-addled nation to a highly disrespected, debt-saturated nation where no one is free to read, speak, or even think as they please.

Obama is the man for the presidency because he has morals, and so does his running mate. No, he hasn't offered any solutions for the financial meltdown-- but then, the smartest people I know (people to whom I would gladly hand over the world on a silver platter with maybe one iota of doubt, total) don't even pretend to understand the $700 billion bailout plan. This is called being human.

And Obama's campaign is not based on hatred, mistrust, suspicion, or any of those other so-called "values" that mega-conservatives have been using for years as their alleged "moral compass." Lizzie Borden had a better moral compass!

And if McCain and Palin are elected, those forty whacks will fall on us. They will fall hardest on those of us who were not able to vote in this crucial election (maybe the most crucial in our nation's history) because of something as trivial as age (for many of us, a matter of months, weeks, or even days!)

I call on everybody (although I probably only have three readers at this point) to vote for Barack H. Obama. The "H" stands for "Hooray! A competent elected official!"